Here is one DVD you can share and distribute without fear of a threatening letter coming through your door about copyright infringement. Before reading the rest of this article, if you have no idea what the Demoscene is, then you should read this first. Those of you old enough to remember the Commodore Amiga range … Continue reading »
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REVIEW: Peppermint – Cloud/Lightweight distro & Considering the cloud?
Linux and its diverse range of distributions are developing at a very fast pace. Nearly every day on Distrowatch I see something new and whilst I would like to take a look at everything, the popularity and demand for Linux distro’s means that I do not have the time to review everything. In today’s … Continue reading »
Ofcom and its Code of Practice
It’s been a busy few months here in the (now) sunny UK. Not only did we see the Digital Economy Bill rushed through parliament but also a coalition government with allegedly the liberal democrats wanting to get rid of it with the conservatives seemingly quite happy with it. It is now being reported that Ofcom … Continue reading »
REVIEW: DeVeDe 3.16.8 – DVD made easy!
I don’t know about anyone else, but over the years, Ive collected numerous video files, from trailers to tutorials, from “jokes” my friends have created to family events, which are dull to everyone but family members. With this mish-mash of video’s comes the problem that just like making dinner, nobody does it the same way … Continue reading »
REVIEW: Puppy Arcade 8 (LiveCD 105mb)
Puppy Arcade is one of the few Linux distro’s that Openbytes tries to keep following. Since version 5, Puppy Arcade has not only been a favorite with friends and colleagues, but also has a home on a few of my machines around the house that would otherwise be obsolete. Ive had the pleasure of a … Continue reading »
Newsbytes 22/05/10 – Microsoft/Google/BT/P2P
GoogleWave, Google’s realtime chat and collaboration product has now come out of invite only testing and gone public. We have covered this project before and loved the idea. Get yourself over to the Wave site and don’t forget to check out a few tutorials on using it. http://wave.google.com/about.html Microsoft has popped up in the war … Continue reading »
Monty Ballmer – The Life of Vista
I was saying recently that Steve Ballmer has not come to notice for any of his entertaining appearances lately. Ballmer is one person who you can guarantee that despite trying to pimp Microsoft will always entertain with his “unique” methods on stage. This behaviour causes him (who can forget what was touted as the “monkey … Continue reading »
Usenet gets attention and Giganews tries to avoid it?
When the poorly thought out strategies for dealing with online copyright infringement started to take effect, I said at the time that we would see a migration towards Usenet. I am aware of whats called the “first rule of Usenet” which is not to talk about Usenet, but since I have no interests in infringing … Continue reading »
MVP program – Microsoft responds to Openbytes!
Regular readers to Openbytes will remember that we recently covered a rather sinister practice where a Microsoft MVP had changed his name (and gender) in the comments section of Openbytes in order to support himself by pretending to be another user. This wasn’t new news since the same Microsoft MVP had also engaged in the … Continue reading »
Hitting the F-Spot – New version a day after its dumping?
Its been reported in the last few days that F-Spot is to be removed from Ubuntu 10.10 and after some poor reports about its inclusion (and its Mono dependency) it comes as little surprise that it’s to be booted out the ‘buntu. Taken from here: F-Spot has been voted off the island by developers at … Continue reading »
